Modernization

Utah county makes records safer

Salt Lake County has established a state-of-the-art offsite recovery program to allow officials to access public records in the event of an emergency.

People

CIO: FBI will focus on info sharing in 2006

Sentinel is the center of attention among the bureau's IT projects.

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Searching cyberspace for history

Historians and the National Archives and Records Administration are collaborating to monitor auction house Web sites to find missing and stolen government records.

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Hite says lack of EA no barrier to Sentinel

GAO's Randy Hite said the FBI should proceed with building its data management system even though its new enterprise architecture is not complete.

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GAO: Tech can reduce immigrant benefits backlog

A new report states that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services must create a system that tracks applications.

Cybersecurity

Bush order surprises watchdog group

Open government advocates say the president's executive order fails to address the cause of problems in accessing government information.

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On your mark, get set...

Agencies struggle to protect their data at all times

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Petitioners want Katrina contracts online

Open-government proponents say they hope to prevent misuse of taxpayer dollars by disclosing how officials spend public money.

People

CHCS II's global launch set

A DOD official will give details about the Composite Health Care System II's deployment at a press briefing Nov. 21.

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British Library, Microsoft to digitize 25 million pages

The plan is to digitize roughly 100,000 out-of-copyright books, which will be available through the new MSN Book Search beta service next year.

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GAO gives e-Rulemaking team an 'attaboy'

Federal officials in charge of the e-government initiative followed many best practices for managing projects.

People

ACS wins state Medicaid work

New Mexico pact could total $82.5 million for integrator and is just the latest deal in a customer relationship dating to 1994.

Modernization

MetaCarta enters civilian government market

The Environmental Protection Agency is MetaCarta's first government customer outside of defense, intelligence and homeland security agencies.

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GPO forms new digital director position

The agency charged with distributing government publications has created a new executive-level position to lead its transition into the Digital Age.

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NARA selects Lockheed for its e-records program

Lockheed beat out Harris for the $308 million contract to create an electronic records archive.

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USDA keeps paychecks coming, despite Katrina

The Agriculture Department's finance center in New Orleans completed the payroll for nearly 500,000 federal workers before the hurricane hit.

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Thomas refreshed

Library of Congress upgrades its popular Web site

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National archivist seeks states' advice

New committee will bring outside expertise to NARA

People

EPA data littered with errors and gaps

A new report calls for a single, centralized data system after finding that EPA data is full of errors.

People

FBI cleans up its e-recordkeeping

Certification program underscores new focus on records.